Screenplay: Christopher Hampton

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Christopher Hampton. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Father

2020 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Florian Zeller

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Olivia Colman · Imogen Poots · Rufus Sewell

Plot Almost 80, mischievous, caustic, and defiantly living alone, Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) rejects each and every hired caretaker that his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), lovingly introduces. Anne is desperate for help....

7.7

14K votes

7.7

14K votes

Dangerous Liaisons

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Glenn Close · John Malkovich · Michelle Pfeiffer · Keanu Reeves

Plot Based on the infamous novel LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES by Choderlos de Laclos and the subsequent Christopher Hampton play, set in pre-revolutionary France, a cunning Marquise (Glenn Close) and a seductive...

7.6

23K votes

7.6

23K votes

Atonement

2007 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · James McAvoy · Romola Garai · Saoirse Ronan

Plot On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain...

6.9

38K votes

6.9

38K votes

A Doll's House

1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Patrick Garland

Cast Claire Bloom · Anthony Hopkins · Ralph Richardson · Denholm Elliott

Plot Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's...

6.7

176 votes

6.7

176 votes

The Quiet American

2002 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Phillip Noyce

Cast Michael Caine · Brendan Fraser · Do Thi Hai Yen · Rade Serbedzija

Plot American Aid worker Alden Pyle arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, at the height of the Vietnamese fight for independence from French colonial rule. Filled with zeal for...

6.4

8K votes

6.4

8K votes

The Wolf at the Door

1986 · Movie · 90 min. · Denmark

Direction Henning Carlsen

Cast Donald Sutherland · Max von Sydow · Jean Yanne · Sofie Gråbøl

Plot This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must...

6.3

26 votes

6.3

26 votes

The Son

2022 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Florian Zeller

Cast Hugh Jackman · Zen McGrath · Vanessa Kirby · Laura Dern

Plot Peter as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Carrington

1995 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Hampton

Cast Emma Thompson · Jonathan Pryce · Steven Waddington · Rufus Sewell

Plot The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

A Dangerous Method

2011 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast Keira Knightley · Viggo Mortensen · Michael Fassbender · Vincent Cassel

Plot Set on the eve of World War I, A Dangerous Method is based on the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline...

6.0

24K votes

6.0

24K votes

Total Eclipse

1995 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Agnieszka Holland

Cast Leonardo DiCaprio · David Thewlis · Romane Bohringer · Christopher Hampton

Plot Director Agnieszka Holland presents this probing period piece that examines the nihilistic relationship between bad-boy French poet Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) and writer Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). After Rimbaud sends...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

The Good Father

1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Jim Broadbent · Harriet Walter · Frances Viner

Plot Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by hiw wife...

5.7

57 votes

5.7

57 votes

5.7

6K votes

Ali and Nino

2016 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Asif Kapadia

Cast Adam Bakri · María Valverde · Mandy Patinkin · Connie Nielsen

Plot Love story of a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku from 1918 to 1920.

5.4

285 votes

5.4

285 votes

The Thirteenth Tale (TV)

2013 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Kent

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Olivia Colman · Sophie Turner · Alexandra Roach

Plot The story of the residents of Angelfield House and follows ageing novelist Vida Winter, who enlists a young writer to finally tell the story of her life - including her...

5.3

589 votes

5.3

589 votes

Chéri

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Kathy Bates · Rupert Friend · Felicity Jones

Plot Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century is the sophisticated centre of the world. The city’s artists, its fashion, the theatre and its music – everything here is at...

5.3

2K votes

5.3

2K votes

The Secret Agent

1996 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Hampton

Cast Bob Hoskins · Patricia Arquette · Gérard Depardieu · Christian Bale

Plot London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an...

5.2

498 votes

5.2

498 votes

Beyond the Limit

1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Mackenzie

Cast Richard Gere · Michael Caine · Bob Hoskins · Elpidia Carrillo

Plot Dr. Eduardo Plarr, despite the name is an Anglo working in a Latin American country. His work is a return home after several years. He begins to form and re-establish...

5.2

562 votes

5.2

562 votes

Imagining Argentina

2003 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Hampton

Cast Antonio Banderas · Emma Thompson · Rubén Blades · Maria Canals-Barrera

Plot Carlos Rueda is the director of a children's theatre in Buenos Aires, a city haunted by the ongoing disappearance of individuals who dare to take a stand against the dictatorship...

5.0

1K votes

5.0

1K votes

Adore

2013 · Movie · 111 min. · Australia

Direction Anne Fontaine

Cast Naomi Watts · Robin Wright · Xavier Samuel · James Frecheville

Plot A gripping tale of love, lust, and the power of friendship, Two Mothers charts the unconventional and passionate affairs embarked upon by two lifelong friends, Lil and Roz, who fall...

5.0

3K votes

5.0

3K votes

The Singapore Grip (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tom Vaughan

Cast Luke Treadaway · David Morrissey · Colm Meaney · Charles Dance

Plot 6 Episodes -60 minutes each-. The son of a British family living in South East Asia becomes involved in a love triangle.

4.9

68 votes

4.9

68 votes